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Há 1 dia · Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772.
Há 5 dias · He presents Frederick as a figure primarily motivated by constitutional rather than religious concerns, who was perfectly happy to tolerate Lutherans and Catholics, and even to ally with Catholic states, to defeat what he perceived as Habsburg tyranny.
Há 5 dias · When the senior branch of the Palatinate branch died out in 1559, the electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.
Há 1 dia · Its outbreak is generally traced to 1618, when Emperor Ferdinand II was deposed as king of Bohemia and replaced by the Protestant Frederick V of the Palatinate.
28 de mai. de 2024 · See Author's Response. Paul Kliber Monod has written an ambitious and very welcome book, which seeks to investigate the relationship between Christianity and kingship across the whole of Christian Europe in the 'long' seventeenth century from 1589 to 1715.
28 de mai. de 2024 · Explore the reign of Frederick the Great, the visionary monarch who transformed Prussia into a major European power. From his military campaigns and administrative reforms to his patronage of the...
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14 de mai. de 2024 · In the summer of 1730, when Frederick was Crown Prince, he had attempted to flee to Britain while on a trip to the Palatinate. When the plan failed, what was the punishment the courts, along with his father, King Frederick William I, handed down.
